Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. The jail figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site on September 23, 2026.
Park County, Colorado, has about 18,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Park County Sheriff's Office and one city agency. An arrest leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the District Attorney files charges, a case in the Park County District Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Park County public records, Colorado arrest records, Colorado inmate search and Colorado criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Park County
The Park County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Park County. It reported 85 arrests for 2021, its latest complete year.
The FBI lists one city in Park County with a reporting agency of its own:
- Fairplay, 755 residents: 36 arrests reported for 2025.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
How Many Arrests Fairplay Reports
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.
- Fairplay: 36 for 2025, 26 for 2024, 27 for 2022, 13 for 2021, 26 for 2020 and 25 for 2019; 2023 is missing months.
- Park County Sheriff's Office: 85 for 2021, 80 for 2020 and 182 for 2019.
Through August 2026, Fairplay reported 34 arrests, against 23 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Park County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Park County and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
On an average day in 2025 the jail held about 17 people, down from about 55 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 200 beds, and it ran at 8 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Park County Sheriff's Office at parkcountysheriff-wy.gov/detention (page title: Detention | Park County Sheriff), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 23, 2026.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Colorado Department of Corrections lists its inmates at cdoc.colorado.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Park County
An arrest in Park County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the Park County District Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at coloradojudicial.gov/courts/trial-courts/park-county, phone (719) 204-2205); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at parkcountyco.gov/m/directory/department?did=51, phone 719-836-2080).
Colorado is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the state runs an online name-based criminal history check open to the public, through the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Park County
The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. Under the Colorado Open Records Act the agency must answer within 3 working days, extendable to 7 when there are extenuating circumstances, and it may charge research and retrieval time after the first hour, plus copying.
- An arrest by the Park County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Fairplay: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, 719-836-2080, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Park County District Court, through the court records page at coloradojudicial.gov, phone (719) 204-2205.
- Your own statewide record: a name-based or fingerprint-based request to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
Cities in Park County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the two cities in Park County: Fairplay. Alma has no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the Park County District Court.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Park County each year?
Fairplay reported 36 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Park County?
Ask the Park County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at parkcountysheriff-wy.gov/detention.
Where are people arrested in Park County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Park County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Park County?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation: the state runs an online name-based criminal history check open to the public. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Colorado Open Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Park County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Park County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Colorado Open Records Act the answer is due within 3 working days, extendable to 7 when there are extenuating circumstances.
Is this the official Park County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.